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Critical Issues in Crime and Justice: Thought, Policy, and Practice provides an incisive overview of issues and perspectives in criminal justice and criminology designed to expand upon key areas of study. With contributed essays from leading scholars in the field, the Third Edition illustrates the breadth of research, policy, and practice implications in areas such as crime theory, law enforcement, jurisprudence, corrections, and criminal justice organization and management. New to this edition are chapters on wrongful convictions, human trafficking, and mental illness and criminal justice, three critical issues facing contemporary policing, courts, and corrections. The coverage of concepts, insights, voices, and perspectives will challenge criminal justice and criminology students to synthesize what they have learned, question standard interpretations, and begin to create new directions and visions for their future careers as professionals in the field.
Popular Culture, Media, and Crime
Popular Culture, Media, and Crime
The interrelationship between popular culture, the media, and crime is a complicated one that can be approached from many angles. For years, scholars interested in these issues focused on a few different questions related to whether particular forms of popular culture influence delinquency and crime, and how the news media and other forms of mass media construct issues of crime, delinquency, and social control. These questions are still important ones that drive a great deal of research, but our contemporary social world requires us to ask newer questions as well. For example, do the ever-popular television reality shows about crime issues impact viewers’ behavior? What is the ...
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